Savage: The Life and Times of Jemmy Button
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This is the story of Jemmy Button, a free man torn from his pacific island hom and brought to Britain. He was taught English, dressed in British clothes and paraded to the British establishment, then ferried back and forth to his homeland as part of a grand experiment retold here.
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This is the story of Jemmy Button, a free man torn from his pacific island hom and brought to Britain. He was taught English, dressed in British clothes and paraded to the British establishment, then ferried back and forth to his homeland as part of a grand experiment retold here.
Title: Savage: The Life and Times of Jemmy Button
Author: Hazlewood, Nick
ISBN: 9780340739129
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Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Publication Date: 2001-01-04
Number of Pages: 320
Weight: 0.3403 kg
A gripping tale which breathes flesh and blood into the pre-colonial savages of South America and provides a fascinating insigh tinto the minds of England's well-meaning but deluded missionaries - The Mail on Sunday
It is a wonderful piece of detective work recounted in an open style that allows us to sympathise with an improbable array of people - Evening Standard Fascinating and indispensable Nick Hazlewood sensitively tells this extraordinary story within the social and historical context of the time - Financial Times Nick Hazlewood has written a delightful book ... searching out the historical detail with all the fluency of a novelist' - Independent-
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